Gas-generator.



G. A. HBGKERT.

GAS GENERATOR.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 12, 1908.

954,099, Patented Apr. '5, 1910.

GUSTAV ADOLF HECKERT, OF MUNICH, GERMANY.

GAS- GENERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1908.

Patented Apr. 5, .1910. Serial No. 432,342.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV AnoLr Hncxnn'r, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Munich, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Generators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in upright gas generators, such as retorts, gasifying chambers and the like, and the object of the improvements is to provide an apparatus of this class in which the residues of the combustion can easily be removed without stopping the operation of the generator.

For the purpose of explaining the invention, I have shown an example embodying the same in the accompanying drawing, in which the same letters of reference have been used in all the views to indicate corresponding parts.

In said drawing Fig. 1 is a vertical cross-section of the apparatus taken on the line 11 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-section of the same taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

At the bottom part of the gas producing chamber a of a gas generator a grate is provided, whereby the chamber is separated from the ash pit. The grate consists of two sets of laterally movable bars d and e loosely located one beside the other on guide ways 72, 0. Between consecutive bars 03 disposed substantially at the same distances from one another, a plurality of bars 6 is located the height of which is less than that of the bars 0?. At one side of the generator, the guide ways Z2, 0 extend outside the chamber a, and the sets of bars d and e are disposed over the whole length of the guide ways, and are adapted to be pushed forward and into the generator through a lateral opening 9 of the chamber. At the opposite side of the producing chamber an opening i normally closed by a pivotal gate j is provided.

In the example illustrated, the bars d, e are pushed forward by means of a slide 70 adapted to be reciprocated by means of a pair of screw rods m operated by spur gears 0 and a hand wheel n. The operating mechanism described is supported on uprights p and r.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows:

foremost bars are successively pushed through the opening 2' while rocking the 1. In combination with agas generator provided with a chamber adapted to contain a mass of combustible material, a plurality of grate bars at the bottom of said chamber, some of said bars being higher than the remaining bars, and means for moving said bars across and out of said chamber, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination with a gas generator provided with a chamber adapted to contain a mass of combustible material, guide ways extending through and across said chamber at the bottom thereof, a plurality of grate bars mounted upon said guide ways, some of said grate bars being higher than the remaining bars, and means for moving said grate bars along said guide ways, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In combination with a gas generator provided with a chamber adapted to contain a mass of combustible material, guide ways extending through and across said chamber at the bottom thereof, a plurality of individually removable grate bars mounted upon said guide ways, some of said grate bars being higher than the remaining bars, and means for moving said grate bars along said guide ways, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GUSTAV ADOLF HECKE-RT.

Witnesses:

MATHILDE K. HELD, LOUIS F. MUELLER.

By rotating the hand wheel a, the bars OZ and e are pushed forward, so that the 

